Imelda Staunton
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born January 9, 1956) is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in 1976 and appeared in various theatre productions in the United Kingdom. Staunton has performed in a variety of plays and musicals in London throughout her career, winning four Laurence Olivier Awards; three for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her roles in the musicals Into the Woo...
Known For
Filmography
& Sons
2026
as Isabel
Tommy & Tuppence
2026
as Aunt Ada
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession
2025
as Mrs Peggy Warren
Testimony
2025
as Narrator (voice)
Paddington in Peru
2024
as Aunt Lucy (voice)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023
as Bunty (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
2023
as Mrs Umney (voice)
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
as Maud Bagshaw
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
as Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self
Victorian Britain on Film
2021
as Narrator
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
2021
as Self
Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War
2021
as Self - Narrator
The Far Traveller
2020
as Narrator
Amulet
2020
as Sister Claire
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020
as reader
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020
as Self - Readings
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
as Irene Ruddock
Trying
2020
as Penny
Flesh and Blood
2020
as Mary Bennett
A Confession As Told By ITV News
2019
as Imelda Staunton - Self / Karen Edwards
Downton Abbey
2019
as Maud Bagshaw
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
as Knotgrass
A Confession
2019
as Karen Edwards
Finding Your Feet
2017
as Sandra Abbott
Paddington 2
2017
as Aunt Lucy (voice)
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2017
as Martha
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: Follies
2017
as Sally Durant Plummer
Little Bird
2017
as First Officer Simpkins
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
2016
as Self
The Crown
2016
as Queen Elizabeth II
Gypsy
2015
as Rose
Pride: The True Story
2015
as Herself
Maleficent
2014
as Knotgrass
Pride
2014
as Hefina
Paddington
2014
as Aunt Lucy (voice)
That Day We Sang
2014
as Enid
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
2014
as Self
Lily's Driftwood Bay
2014
as Rowena Rabbit (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013
as Shrew (voice)
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012
as Queen Victoria (voice)
The Girl
2012
as Alma Reville Hitchcock
London: The Modern Babylon
2012
as Spoken Quotations (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2012
as Mrs. Lovett
The Story of Musicals
2012
as Self – Narrator (voice)
Arthur Christmas
2011
as Mrs Santa (voice)
The Awakening
2011
as Maud Hill
Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Talking Flowers (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Dolores Umbridge
Another Year
2010
as Janet
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
as Grace Andrews
White Other
2010
as Lynne McDermott
The Michael Ball Show
2010
as Self
Taking Woodstock
2009
as Sonia Teichberg
Adapting Austen
2009
as Self
Psychoville
2009
as Grace Andrews
Three and Out
2008
as Rosemary Cassidy
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008
as Mary
Clay
2008
as Mary Doonan
Big & Small
2008
as Twiba / Ruby (voice)
Big & Small
2008
as Twiba (voice)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Dolores Umbridge
Freedom Writers
2007
as Margaret Campbell
How About You...
2007
as Hazel Nightingale
Guilty Hearts
2007
as Naomi
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
as Self
Where Have I Been All Your Life?
2007
as Angela
Cranford
2007
as Miss Pole
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Shadow Man
2006
as Ambassador Cochran
The Wind in the Willows
2006
as Barge Lady
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
2006
as Herself
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown
2006
The One Show
2006
as Self
Nanny McPhee
2005
as Mrs. Blatherwick
My Family and Other Animals
2005
as Mother
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
Fingersmith
2005
as Mrs. Sucksby
Doctor Who
2005
as Interface (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Vera Drake
2004
as Vera Drake
Blackball
2003
as Bridget
I'll Be There
2003
as Dr. Bridget
Bright Young Things
2003
as Lady Brown
The Virgin of Liverpool
2003
as Sylvia Conlon
Strange
2003
as Reverend Mary Truegood
Cambridge Spies
2003
as The Queen
Little Britain
2003
as Mrs. Mead
Crush
2002
as Janine
Ready
2002
as Naomi
Murder
2002
as DCI Billie Dory
Another Life
2001
as Ethel Graydon
Chicken Run
2000
as Bunty (voice)
Rat
2000
as Conchita Flynn
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Mrs. Cottisloe
Jack and the Beanstalk
1999
as Dilly (voice)
David Copperfield
1999
as Mrs. Micawber
Shakespeare in Love
1998
as Nurse
Remember Me?
1997
as Lorna
The Ugly Duckling
1997
as Scruffy (voice)
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Christine Cooper
Twelfth Night
1996
as Maria
The Adventures of Toad
1996
as Voice
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996
as Elspeth / Rowena (voice)
Sense and Sensibility
1995
as Charlotte Jennings Palmer
Citizen X
1995
as Mrs. Burakov
The Adventures of Mole
1995
as Voice
The Snow Queen
1995
as Ivy / Angorra
The Pen
1995
The Wind in the Willows
1995
as Mother Squirrel
Is It Legal?
1995
Look at the State We're In!
1995
as Councillor Johnson
Deadly Advice
1994
as Beth Greenwood
Mole's Christmas
1994
as (voices)
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
as Margaret
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993
as Bridget Bennet
If You See God, Tell Him
1993
as Muriel Spry
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
as Susan
Peter's Friends
1992
as Mary Charleston
Roots
1992
as Jenny Beales
A Masculine Ending
1992
as Bridget Bennet
They Never Slept
1991
as The Producer
Performance
1991
as Jenny Beales
Yellowbacks
1990
as Cheryl Newman
Antonia and Jane
1990
as Jane Hartman
The Englishman's Wife
1990
as Stephanie
Up the Garden Path
1990
The Heat of the Day
1989
as Louie
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Sarah
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989
Thompson
1988
as Self
The Play on One
1988
as Cheryl Newman
Comrades
1987
as Betsy Loveless
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as Polly Flinders
The Singing Detective
1986
as Staff Nurse White
Ladies in Charge
1986
as Edith
ScreenPlay
1986
as Jane Hartman
ScreenPlay
1986
as Stephanie
Screen Two
1985
as The Producer
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
Easy Money
1982
as Mary Price
Playhouse
1974
as Mary Price
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee